Combined easel



(No Model.)

T. E. REEDER.

COMBINED EASEL, PICTURE FRAME, AND POCKET. No. 392,067. Patented 001;. 80, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

THOMAS E. REEDER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

COMBINED EASEL, PICTURE-FRAME, AND POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,067, dated October 30, 1888.

Application filed March 17, 1888. Serial No. 267,560. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. REEDER, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Easel, Picture- Frame, and Pocket, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a combined easel, picture-frame, and pocket.

The drawing is a perspective view, showing the pocket open.

B represents an easel having the supporting-leg E hinged thereto, and may be made of any suitable material and in any desired degree of ornamentation. A represents a picture-frame, which may be made to match the easel, or of any style of molding to suit the picture, and is adapted to receive from the back a glass and picture, and provided with backing such as is ordinarily used in picture-frames. The lower edge of the frame A is hinged either to the upright bars of the easel or to a cross-bar, as may be preferred, with hinges adapted to the size and weight of the frame.

G represents chains or cords which connect the upper part of the frame A with the up right bars of the easel, and D represents cloth or leather sides extending from the upright bars of the easel to the sides of the picture- 30 frame, to form a pocket when the frame is thrown forward, as shown in the drawing.

Either the chains G or the sides D, or both, may be used at will.

My invention may be used simply as an. easel 3 5 carrying a picture by shutting the frame back against the easel, or may add to this the advantage of a pocket for holding music, papers, 800.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 0 The combination, with an easel, of a pictureframe hinged at its lower ends to the easel and connected with the easel by chains or sides, substantially as shown and described.

THOS. E. REEDER.

Witnesses:

GYRUs E. LOTHROP, E. HESSELBAOHER. 

